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The Current Home Hemodialysis Practices and Patients' Safety Related Factors: A Case Study from Germany

The Current Home Hemodialysis Practices and Patients' Safety Related Factors: A Case Study from Germany

Management of deradicalisation in the UK: reflections of a clinical psychologist

Radicalisation to violent action is not just a problem in foreign lands. Research has identified numerous politico–psychosocial factors to explain why young people from the UK are now joining terrorist groups such as ISIS. Our understanding has been expanded by the accounts of “returnees” who have subsequently either self-deradicalised or joined a government deradicalisation programme in the role of an Intervention Provider (IP). These individuals are now key to the deradicalisation programme. This article presents the reflections of a clinical psychologist who worked within a social healthcare team managing psychosocial issues related to radicalisation, in conjunction with an allocated IP. The project involved individuals from the Muslim community and, as such, issues discussed are specific to this group. It is acknowledged that the process in general is universally applicable to all groups though specifics may vary (under Trust agreement, details may not be discussed). This article also aims to share basic information on the current Home Office deradicalisation programme and raises questions about the current intervention. It also offers reflections on how the work of IPs may be facilitated and supported by clinical/counselling psychologists and psychotherapists.

Correlates of advance directive treatment preferences among community-dwelling older people with chronic diseases.

Concerns over the creation of advance directives (ADs) and the factors associated with treatment directive decisions among Korean community-dwelling older people with chronic diseases have rarely been addressed. This study aimed to examine knowledge, attitudes and barriers/benefits regarding ADs and their associations with AD treatment preferences among chronically ill, low-income, community-dwelling older people. Using a descriptive, correlational design, older people who were recipients of home visiting service for chronic disease management participated in this study. Home visiting nurses collected data on knowledge, attitudes and perceived barriers/benefits and treatment directives using questionnaires during home visits. Older people (N=112, mean age=74.9years, women=83.9%) who had chronic diseases such as hypertension (56.3%), diabetes mellitus (40.2%) and cardiovascular disease/stroke (22.3%) participated. Approximately half of the participants preferred hospice care (54.5%), while a few of them preferred aggressive treatments: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) (14.3%), ventilation support (9.8%) and haemodialysis (8.9%). Being married was associated with the likelihood of preferring CPR (odds ratio [OR]=11.79) and ventilation support (OR=9.99), higher education with CPR (OR=1.23) and haemodialysis (OR=1.16), and having a cardiovascular disease (CVD)/stroke with CPR (OR=6.46) and hospice care (OR=3.06). Among the modifiable factors, greater perceived barriers increased the likelihood of CPR preference (OR=1.12) but decreased the likelihood of hospice care preference (OR=0.96). Greater perceived benefits decreased the likelihood of CPR preference (OR=0.81) and ventilation support (OR=0.89), and AD knowledge decreased the likelihood of haemodialysis preference (OR=0.23). The multidimensional factors were differently associated with each of the AD treatment preferences. Modifiable factors, including perceived barriers and benefits and knowledge, should be improved to help low-income, community-dwelling older people select adequate AD treatment preferences. Additional information regarding AD treatments and some modifiable and non-modifiable correlates can be integrated into primary and palliative/supportive care in public health. The current home visitation service may also benefit from incorporating AD discussions while extending the service to embrace AD issues in addition to disease management.

Housing and health: new evidence using biomarker data

BackgroundThe link between housing and health is well established and long-standing, however much of the evidence relies on self-reported health measures. While these are useful, the availability of biomarker data...

Assessing Improvement in the Public's Understanding of Hurricane Storm Tides Through Interactive Visualization Models

Lindner, B.L.; Alsheimer, F., and Johnson, J., 2019. Assessing improvement in the public's understanding of hurricane storm tides through interactive visualization models. Journal of Coastal Research, 35(1), 130–142. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.In order to better understand the efficacy of efforts to educate the public about the risks of hurricane storm surge, links on the local National Weather Service (NWS) website and various media outlets were used to recruit 575 Charleston-area residents to complete two anonymous internet-based surveys. Most participants knew that storm surge was the primary risk from a hurricane in low-lying areas, particularly younger, new residents with less prior experience with hurricanes. One in five participants indicated that the NWS always or usually overstates the dangers of hurricanes, although most participants actually overestimated the accuracy of NWS track forecasts. Many users of a hurricane storm-tide visualization model anticipated more storm surge than they would actually receive in various hurricane scenarios. After model usage, there was a noted increase in user understanding of the importance of landfall location on the amount of storm surge, particularly among women and older participants. Comparing surveys completed before and after model usage, there was no change in the number of users that claimed they would evacuate for a hurricane scenario that produced a small storm tide, but there was a substantial increase in the number that claimed they would evacuate for a hurricane scenario that produced a large storm tide, particularly among younger and new residents. A quarter of users stated they would have reconsidered living in their current home if they had investigated the model prior to their move. Thus, significant evidence exists to demonstrate the effectiveness of this type of model in improving risk awareness among users.

Unsettled Accounts: Anna Letitia Barbauld's Letters to Lydia Rickards

Unsettled Accounts:Anna Letitia Barbauld's Letters to Lydia Rickards Jessica W. H. Lim (bio) Introduction In Anna Letitia Barbauld's poem "A Summer Evening's Meditation" (1773), the speaker longs for transcendence, but her hopes are ultimately frustrated and unfulfilled. She watches as the moon, "Impatient for the night … seems to push / Her brother down the sky," whereupon "I launch into the trackless deeps of space, / Where, burning round, ten thousand suns appear" until she remembers embryo systems and unkindled sunsSleep in the womb of chaos; fancy droops,And thought astonish'd stops her bold career.1 The earnest haste with which Barbauld personifies the moon implies not only that the moon has been waiting to assume a position of supremacy in the sky but also more pertinently that the speaker desires for the moon to displace the sun. The speaker's wish appears to be a metaphorical comment on the limitations within which women operated in Georgian Britain. Barbauld's speaker momentarily achieves transcendence through the freedom of her mind, but the realities of everyday life "[stop] her bold career." Barbauld's play on "career" as a verb and noun is startling; she jolts her readers with the disjunctive juxtaposition of stillness and movement. Her subtle comment on the limitations placed on female careers is implicit in her maternal images of "embryo systems" and "suns" (sons) who reside "in the womb." The speaker is aware that social expectations regarding motherhood limit women's abilities to develop other occupations: "fancy droops." Though the speaker affirms that "the hour will come / When all these splendours bursting on my sight / Shall stand unveil'd," the use of future tense conveys the frustration, as much as the hope, of one separated from "splendours" by a still-present veil (lines 120-22). Like her speaker in "A Summer Evening's Meditation," Barbauld challenged social boundaries and continues to challenge critical categorization. As a philosopher, her radical social politics brought her the label "virago."2 As a writer, she refused to be associated with a single genre; though Poems (1773) received critical acclaim, she spent the remainder of her life [End Page 153] distributing her poems chiefly in manuscript form. Instead, she made her name in the literary market as an educative children's writer, a literary critic and anthologist, and a politically radical pamphleteer and essayist. Born in 1743 to a Rational Dissenting family, Barbauld campaigned for religious freedoms and participated in Dissenting educational academies. Raised in Kibworth and at the Warrington Academy, she later founded a school in Palgrave with her husband. Her alumnae included Sir Thomas Denman, who went on to become the Chief Justice of England during the passage of the 1832 Reform Act. In many ways, one can characterize Barbauld's life as full; as William McCarthy's magisterial biography demonstrates, the scope of Barbauld's interests and passions and her influence over nineteenth-century political and literary thought were immense.3 Yet this vibrancy coexists with Barbauld's awareness of life's limitations, at which she chafed. Barbauld's frustration with restraint is combined with her understanding of the beauty and significance of the immediate present, a paradoxical attitude that animates her letters to her friend and one-time live-in pupil, Lydia Rickards (later Withering). Barbauld's relationship with Lydia Rickards might have escaped historical notice if not for the efforts of Lydia's descendent, the literary biographer Edith Cordelia (E. C.) Rickards. In 1899, E. C. published an article in Murray's Magazine: A Home and Colonial Periodical for the General Reader celebrating the friendship between Barbauld and her relative.4 E. C. quotes extensively from Barbauld's letters to Lydia, but until recently, the original letters were privately owned. When the last surviving keeper of the Rickards letters passed away, the letters were auctioned off as antique curiosities. Fortuitously, they found their way to McCarthy, who oversaw their settlement in their current home, the Pforzheimer Collection in the New York Public Library. My introduction to the letters was entirely serendipitous. I had contacted the New York Public Library hoping to examine some rare copies of Barbauld's children's books. I received an email...

On Biblical Poetry by F. W Dobbs-Allsopp

R&L 51.1 (Spring 2019) 195 BOOK REVIEWS On Biblical Poetry F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp Oxford University Press, 2015. xxii + 575 pp. $74 cloth. There is a relatively small canon of classic texts on the literary study of biblical poetry. This canon takes up roughly a third of a bookshelf, containing one series of lectures from the mid-eighteenth century and four or five monographs published in the early 1980s. The dependence of the latter texts on the ideas established by the former exhibits the remarkable power and lasting influence of a critical idiom built largely on a single word. That word— “parallelism”—was introduced more than two hundred years ago when Bishop Robert Lowth used it to name a certain correspondence between adjacent lines of Hebrew verse, and thus to identify as “poetry” texts that had no apparent meter. Even as Lowth himself admitted that there was more to this literary tradition than parallelism, his account of this stylistic convention unwittingly set the term(s) for the critical study of biblical poetry for centuries. While parallelism remains “the best known and best understood feature of biblical Hebrew verse,” F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp claims in his new book On Biblical Poetry that it is by no means exhaustive of the style or substance of this literary tradition (3). In his excellent addition to this critical canon, Dobbs-Allsopp offers a new and expansive vocabulary for the study of biblical poetry—one that makes a promising move to extend critical engagement with this literature beyond the constraints of the term “parallelism” and the confines of its current disciplinary home in biblical studies. The ambitious title and hefty size of this text is, for once, a good measure of what you will find inside. The book is rigorous and wide-ranging. It marshals extensive historical research and comparative analysis, offering studies of the evolution of lineation in the Bible’s manuscript traditions in one moment and in the next, a close study of one stylistic feature of biblical Religion & Literature 196 verse, clarified by comparison to an analogous element in another poetic tradition (from the style of Ugaritic epic to the rhythms of Old English verse to the syntactic patterns of the Yupik Eskimo). By formulating the language of this comparative, conversational inquiry in terms that will be familiar not only to biblical scholars but to scholars of literature and poetry as well, Dobbs-Allsopp makes a compelling bid for biblical poetry to follow biblical narrative and take its own place in the canon of comparative literatures. The book is divided into five chapters. Each of the first four advances a critical term for the study of biblical poetry (line, rhythm, lyric, and orality), while the fifth puts this new critical idiom to work, offering an interpretation of the brief poem found in Psalm 133. In Chapter 1, Dobbs-Allsopp makes a case that the poetic line (rather than the parallelistic line-pair) constitutes the “prosodic motor and defining feature of biblical verse” (20). Reframing this poetic line not as a matter of graphic representation but as a structure that was originally vocalized, Dobbs-Allsopp explores the ways in which stylistic features like parallelism served this oral tradition by magnifying the singularity of the poetic line in the absence of visual representation—individuating and emphasizing that line as “the fulcrum of its play” (93). Chapter 2 lends new conceptual clarity to the absence of meter in biblical poetry, construing this absence not as a deficiency, but as evidence of the Bible’s participation in a poetic tradition associated with the rhythms of modern writers like Walt Whitman—a tradition we would now call “free verse.” Chapter 3 considers the predominance of “lyric” poetry in the biblical canon—exploring how, in the absence of plot, lyric exploits language, syntax, and rhythm beyond their normal capacities as an “alternative means for organizing its discourse, for demarcating boundaries, for guiding auditors through to a satisfying denouement” (191). Chapter 4 addresses the interpretive missteps that arise as a consequence of the “hyper-literate orientation” of modern readers by taking a closer look at the “informing orality” of biblical poetics. Here, Dobbs-Allsopp clarifies that many of the stylistic...

Application of universal remote control of non-smart home appliances for smart home concepts

The smart homes concept is widely used nowadays, as well as many different standards and technologies that exist which enable to remotely control almost every home appliance. In this paper, we would like to address universal solution of remote control based on available widely used hardware solution which allows to connect not only current appliances from different producers, but also older appliances which support only the handling via a controller on the basis of infrared transfer. Finally, these non-smart home appliances are going to be integrated in whole smart environment and also be as smart as other new appliances. The part of the solution is the interface for the connection of the application to current smart home systems and an intelligent recognition and an automatisation of user's actions with controllers. The result of the implementation is a functional prototype with all required design (PCB) and implementation. User testing also confirms the amount of time saved by using such device instead of original non-smart or not connected smart ones.

Habitat use of sympatric prey suggests divergent anti-predator responses to recolonizing gray wolves.

The non-consumptive effects of predators on prey are now widely recognized, but the need remains for studies identifying the factors that determine how particular prey species respond behaviorally when threatened with predation. We took advantage of ongoing gray wolf (Canis lupus) recolonization in eastern Washington, USA, to contrast habitat use of two sympatric prey species-mule (Odocoileus hemionus) and white-tailed (O. virginianus) deer-at sites with and without established wolf packs. Under the hypothesis that the nature and scale of responses by these ungulates to wolf predation risk depend on their divergent flight tactics (i.e., modes of fleeing from an approaching predator), we predicted that (1) mule deer would respond to wolves with coarse-scale spatial shifts to rugged terrain favoring their stotting tactic; (2) white-tailed deer would manage wolf risk with fine-scale shifts toward gentle terrain facilitating their galloping tactic within their current home range. Resource selection functions based on 61 mule deer and 59 white-tailed deer equipped with GPS radio-collars from 2013 to 2016 revealed that habitat use for each species was altered by wolf presence, but in divergent ways that supported our predictions. Our findings add to a growing literature highlighting flight behavior as a viable predictor of prey responses to predation risk across multiple ecosystem types. Consequently, they suggest that predators could initiate multiple indirect non-consumptive effects in the same ecosystem that are transmitted by divergent responses of sympatric prey with different flight tactics.

El manuscrito del 'Cancionero de Baena' (PN1): Descripción codicológica y evolución histórica

The present article attempts to establish as accurately as possible the chronological trajectory of the unique codex of the Cancionero de Baena (PN1 in the Dutton nomenclature). It begins with a detailed examination of the codicological aspects of the manuscript, which serve to date its origin to around 1465. This origin, combined with the historical data, supports a conjecture that the manuscript probably belonged to Gonzalo de Beteta, an official of both Enrique IV and the Catholic Kings. It would have passed from him to his grandson, Jorge de Beteta y Cardenas, who gave it to the Real Biblioteca de El Escorial in 1576. The article then follows the vicissitudes of the manuscript from its disappearance from the Escorial at the beginning of the 19th c. until its sale in London in 1824 and its acquisition in 1836 by the Bibliotheque nationale de France, its current home. In passing, the article refutes the thesis that the manuscript would have belonged to the library of Isabel I in 1503 and would have been left by her, along with other books, to the Capilla Real of the cathedral of Granada, whence it would have passed to El Escorial.

Securing Consumer IoT in the Smart Home: Architecture, Challenges, and Countermeasures

The consumer Internet of Things (IoT) platforms are gaining high popularity. However, due to the open nature of wireless communications, smart home platforms are facing many new challenges, especially in the aspect of security and privacy. In this article, we first introduce the architecture of current popular smart home platforms and elaborate the functions of each component. Then we discuss the security and privacy challenges arising from these platforms and review the state of the art of the proposed countermeasures. We give a comprehensive survey on several new attacks on the voice interface of smart home platforms, which aim to gain unauthorized access and execute over-privileged behaviors to compromise the user's privacy. To thwart these attacks, we propose a novel voice liveness detection system, which analyzes the wireless signals generated by IoT devices and the received voice samples to perform user authentication. We implement a real-world testbed on Samsung's SmartThings platform to evaluate the performance of the proposed system, and demonstrate its effectiveness.

Home Prices and Global Imbalances: Which Drives Which?

SummaryMany countries which experienced rising home prices (often described as bubbles) over the 2000s decade also ran large trade deficits. Some early research on the topic suggested that capital from trade surplus countries lowered borrowing costs and boosted housing values. In this scenario, the current account deficits and high home prices in bubble countries were driven in substantial part by capital flows from abroad.In contrast, some theoretical and empirical work suggests domestic factors‐rising home prices‐stimulate borrowing, which leads to current account deficits. In this more recent telling, it is domestic changes in bubble countries‐the increase in home values‐that drive trade imbalances, rather than the reverse.In this study, we investigate the interaction of both the current account and home prices for nine nations, with data spanning a minimum of the mid‐1990s to 2013, with the objective of determining whether external factors impact domestic housing markets. We use vector autoregressions and find strong evidence that the current account exerts a palpable effect on home values, even controlling for reverse causality and the effects of other variables.

Ambient Intelligence Environment for Home Cognitive Telerehabilitation.

Higher life expectancy is increasing the number of age-related cognitive impairment cases. It is also relevant, as some authors claim, that physical exercise may be considered as an adjunctive therapy to improve cognition and memory after strokes. Thus, the integration of physical and cognitive therapies could offer potential benefits. In addition, in general these therapies are usually considered boring, so it is important to include some features that improve the motivation of patients. As a result, computer-assisted cognitive rehabilitation systems and serious games for health are more and more present. In order to achieve a continuous, efficient and sustainable rehabilitation of patients, they will have to be carried out as part of the rehabilitation in their own home. However, current home systems lack the therapist’s presence, and this leads to two major challenges for such systems. First, they need sensors and actuators that compensate for the absence of the therapist’s eyes and hands. Second, the system needs to capture and apply the therapist’s expertise. With this aim, and based on our previous proposals, we propose an ambient intelligence environment for cognitive rehabilitation at home, combining physical and cognitive activities, by implementing a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) that gathers, as far as possible, the knowledge of a rehabilitation expert. Moreover, smart sensors and actuators will attempt to make up for the absence of the therapist. Furthermore, the proposed system will feature a remote monitoring tool, so that the therapist can supervise the patients’ exercises. Finally, an evaluation will be presented where experts in the rehabilitation field showed their satisfaction with the proposed system.

Home Care in Ontario: Perspectives on Equity.

Home care is an integral aspect of the Canadian health care system. Services provided to individuals allow them to live with independence and dignity within the comfort of their own residences. This article examines the historical evolution of Ontario's home care reform and the current challenges faced by staff members, patients, and their caregivers in reference to health equity. Political economy and feminist lenses are used to highlight the impact of market-based health care reforms on gendered experiences and access to home care services. Research and reports are used to critique the development of the home care system to date. Findings suggest that the current home care system is underfunded, understaffed, and inequitable in access to care. At this time, policies strategically remain blinded to the harsh realities of the home care sector in order to justify cost cutting, deregulation, and privatization of services.

Parents Adjust the Quality of Their Home Literacy Environment to the Reading Interest of Their Third to Sixth Graders

SYNOPSISObjective. The current home literacy activities that parents of children in Grade 3–6 (aged 6.90–13.40 years) engaged in were examined, in relation to parents’ and children’s perceived reading interest and the number of books at home. Design. A survey study was carried out among 452 parents. Subsequently, 89 children in Grades 3 and 4 completed a questionnaire about their reading interest. Results. The frequency of home literacy activities declines between Grades 3 and 6. When parents perceive their child as an interested reader, they engage in more frequent home literacy activities, even when they are not interested readers themselves. The frequency of the activities predicts children’s self-reported reading interest in Grades 3 and 4, whereas amount of books at home and parents’ own reading interest do not seem to explain any additional variance. Conclusion. Parents should be made aware of the importance of engaging in home literacy activities with their older child because these activities can still play a role in their child’s reading interest.

Homeownership: What Does Houston Habitat for Humanity Homeowners Have to Say?

Homeownership, labeled as the American Dream, confers several benefits to the individual homeowner and their children, the homeowners’ community, and the national economy. Several policies and programs have been established to promote homeownership. One of such organizations is Houston Habitat, a subsidiary of Habitat for Humanity International. A sampling procedure was implemented to examine the perceptions of homeowners on previous residence and their current Habitat home.

Factors Associated With Social Isolation Among the Older People in India.

To explore the factors associated with social isolation among older people using the data from Building Knowledge Base on Population Ageing in India (BKPAI) survey. Multiple logistic regression and classification and regression tree (CART) analysis were used to identify the factors associated with social isolation using data from BKPAI survey. An individual was regarded as socially isolated if the response was "never" to all 4 activities in the last 12 months: (1) attending public meeting, (2) attending any group/club/organizational meeting, (3) attending any religious program, and (4) visiting friends or relatives. Among 9836 older people, 19.7% were observed to be socially isolated. From multiple logistic regression, age (odds ratio [OR] = 1.85 for age 80 to 89 years and OR = 2.67 for age ≥90), religion (OR = 0.54 for Christians compared to Hindus), duration of stay in current home (OR = 0.64 for 6-10 years compared to >10 years of stay), number of activities of daily living (ADLs) for which the assistance was needed (OR = 2.09 for 1 or 2, OR = 3.14 for 3 or 4, and OR = 12.05 for 5 or 6), and Alzheimer's disease (OR = 1.65) were identified as factors associated with social isolation. Number of ADL for which the assistance was needed and self-reported health status were the factors identified through CART analysis. Requiring help in performing ADL, advancing age, and Alzheimer's disease were the likely factors for socially isolation among elderly patients in this surveyed population.

Early Life Socioeconomic Disparities in Children's Sleep: The Mediating Role of the Current Home Environment.

Despite identified concurrent socioeconomic disparities in children's sleep, little research has examined pathways explaining such associations. This study examined the quality of the home environment as a direct predictor of sleep and potential mediator of associations between early life socioeconomic status and objective and subjective indicators of sleep in middle childhood. A socioeconomically and ethnically diverse sample of 381 twin children (50% female; 46.6% lower middle class or living at or below the poverty line; 26% Hispanic/Latino) were assessed at 12 months for SES and eight years using gold-standard home environment interviews and actigraphy-measured sleep. Multilevel mediation path models indicated that lower early SES and lower quality concurrent home environments were associated with shorter sleep durations, longer sleep latencies, and greater sleep timing variability. The home environment significantly mediated associations with sleep duration and sleep timing variability. The findings illustrate an important target in the prevention of poor childhood and adolescent sleep.

Lifetime-ever pneumonia among pre-school children across China – Associations with pre-natal and post-natal early life environmental factors

BackgroundBiomass burning is associated with childhood pneumonia but few studies exist on other indoor factors. AimTo study pneumonia in relation to pre-natal and post-natal exposure among children across China. MethodsChildren (3–6 y) (n = 39,782) from randomized day care centres in seven cities in China. Information on pneumonia and pre-natal and post-natal exposure to home environment factors were assessed by a parental questionnaire. Life-time outdoor temperature and GDP per capita were assessed on city level. Associations were calculated by multilevel logistic regression adjusting for fourteen co-variates. ResultsTotally 32.0% had ever had pneumonia diagnosed by a physician. Children of farmer mothers (OR = 0.65), with breastfeeding (OR = 0.91) and living in rural (OR = 0.85) or suburban (OR = 0.90) areas had less pneumonia. Buying new furniture one year before conception (OR = 1.11) and after first year of life (OR = 1.10) increased the risk. Redecoration one year before conception (OR = 1.20), during pregnancy (OR = 1.18) and after first year of life (OR = 1.17) increased pneumonia risk. Children with mould (OR = 1.17), window pane condensation (WPC) (OR = 1.20) and mould odour (OR = 1.15) at home at birth only had a higher risk of pneumonia. Similar associations were seen for dampness and mould in the current home. Children in the oldest and newest homes had less pneumonia. Cockroaches (OR = 1.08), mosquitos or flies in the current home (OR = 1.18), an exhaust fan in the bathroom (OR = 1.10) and higher economic development level, measured as GDP per capita on city level (OR 1.11 per 10,000 RMB/year) were associated with childhood pneumonia. ConclusionsPerinatal and postnatal exposure to mould, mould odour and window pane condensation at home can be early life risk factors for childhood pneumonia in China. Moreover, pre-natal and post-natal exposure to chemical emissions from new furniture and renovation could increase the risk of childhood pneumonia. Breastfeeding, farm exposure, and living in rural or suburban areas could be protective.

Air pollution and airway resistance at age 8\xa0years \u2013 the PIAMA birth cohort study

BackgroundAir pollution has been found to adversely affect children’s lung function. Forced expiratory volume in 1 s and forced vital capacity from spirometry have been studied most frequently, but measurements of airway resistance may provide additional information. We assessed associations of long-term air pollution exposure with airway resistance.MethodsWe measured airway resistance at age 8 with the interrupter resistance technique (Rint) in participants of the Dutch PIAMA birth cohort study. We linked Rint with estimated annual average air pollution concentrations [nitrogen oxides (NO2, NOx), PM2.5 absorbance (“soot”), and particulate matter < 2.5 μm (PM2.5), < 10 μm (PM10) and 2.5–10 μm (PMcoarse)] at the birth address and current home address (n = 983). Associations between air pollution exposure and interrupter resistance (Rint) were assessed using multiple linear regression adjusting for potential confounders.ResultsWe found that higher levels of NO2 at the current address were associated with higher Rint [adj. mean difference (95% confidence interval) per interquartile range increase in NO2: 0.018 (0.001, 0.035) kPa·s·L− 1]. Similar trends were observed for the other pollutants, except, PM10. No association was found between Rint and exposure at the birth address.ConclusionsOur results support the hypothesis that air pollution exposure is associated with a lower lung function in schoolchildren.